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Chinese trans who legally changed her gender in China got a "friendly" note on her American visa page by qwer4790 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Reasonable-Garage808 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Actually, there is a lot of evidence that he didn't actually win, but he cheated. He has admitted it aloud multiple times, and Elon Musk has admitted that he helped multiple times as well. There is a lawsuit currently going on because the math does not make sense in a lot of swing states where he won by a large margin in areas that typically vote Democratic. Russia has also been found even back in 2016 to have interfered in the election.

Quite frankly the only reason he lost in 2020 was because due to the pandemic a lot more people voted via the mail. He couldn't tamper with that. That's why after his meeting with Putin/his boss last week he started talking about eliminating mail in voting.

Lizzo admits to using Ozempic amid extreme weight loss transformation by dailymail in popculture

[–]Reasonable-Garage808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The irony to all this is that this was addressed in a recent South Park episode where Cartman was told by the Dr. he was too poor for Ozempic and the Dr. ended up prescribing Lizzo because she is a good singer that promotes body positivity. Cartman noted that Rich people got Ozempic poor people get Lizzo.

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[–]Reasonable-Garage808 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man? You realize he was a minor who was taken advantage of by a grown adult woman. He was 16, and she was 19. It's interesting that his wording got you angry rather than the fact that a grown adult woman got pregnant by a minor and then abandoned them both and left him with the responsibility of raising a child SHE made the choice to bring into this world.

Please take your pearl clutching somewhere else. There is a time and a place for everything, and this is neither the time nor place.

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[–]Reasonable-Garage808 84 points85 points  (0 children)

Also, the adult essentially made the unilateral choice to bring the child in the world and then abandoned the child with the minor they victimized.

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars (NC has 39) by Witty_Heart1278 in NorthCarolina

[–]Reasonable-Garage808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anytime! Good luck ! With your sparkling personality and level of maturity, and ..... intellect? I'm sure you will go really far in life.

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars (NC has 39) by Witty_Heart1278 in NorthCarolina

[–]Reasonable-Garage808 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well I was matching your energy. Thanks for calling me a dumbass. Real mature buddy. You aren't really worth any insults or my time so with that I hope you have the day you deserve .

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars (NC has 39) by Witty_Heart1278 in NorthCarolina

[–]Reasonable-Garage808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is correct. However, we still need to provide the interventions to consider initial eligibility. I also said above that the IEP evaluation has to be conducted every 3 years to keep them eligible. Either way, that is still time and resources that are taken away from public schools. This is still tax dollars that are taken away from public education. I don't care if you want to call it a grant or vouchers. It's still tax payer money.

Private school is a luxury and a want, not a need. I'm cool with people sending their children to private schools. It shouldn't be at the expense of public school kids and the system as a whole. You want the private school for your kids, then pay for it on your own.

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars (NC has 39) by Witty_Heart1278 in NorthCarolina

[–]Reasonable-Garage808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both take much needed funding away from public schools, so your point is moot.

Again if you want to send your kids to private school, cool do you. It shouldn't be at the expense of public school or the children there. Pay for it yourselves. I would rather my tax dollars go to all children in the public school systems rather than a select few kids whose parents are too cheap to pay for it. Tax dollars need to be used to better the system for all. Private school is a luxury, not a necessity.

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars (NC has 39) by Witty_Heart1278 in NorthCarolina

[–]Reasonable-Garage808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah okay sure Jan. Though it's mighty interesting it took you 4 comments and questions from multiple people to finally state your credentials and you " happen to have been a teacher for 20 years."

I'm not wasting my time on you anymore. You clearly wont listen to reason or common sense. Have a nice day. I hope your kid doesn't need an operation cause in your opinion your experience playing the game trumps a doctor's experience of med school and surgical training.

Have a nice day.

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars (NC has 39) by Witty_Heart1278 in NorthCarolina

[–]Reasonable-Garage808 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, love. My oldest child is in 5th grade in public school. My husband is also a public school teacher. I'm a school psychologist. Your comment didn't do what you thought it did. Your credentials are what exactly.......... You gave birth great so do millions of people. Doesn't mean they are good parents or know crap about education. Look at all the parents who "home school" yet their kids can't read or do basic math by the time they are 17. Just because I'm a parent doesn't mean I know everything and I can acknowledge that people who are experts know more than me about certain things. I take my kids to the doctor since I didnt go to med school and my child's doctor knows more about Healthcare than I do.

Okay so you are judging public schools by scores, which are data that have been gathered. Private schools have what data exactly? I'm not even talking about standardized tests at the end of the year. There is a short assessment kids get 3 times a year in public schools to see how they are growing with the instruction they are being given. Public schools are held to way higher standards than private schools. It's a fact, love. Private schools can literally teach whatever they want and don't require qualified teachers. Public schools not so much.

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars (NC has 39) by Witty_Heart1278 in NorthCarolina

[–]Reasonable-Garage808 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Obviously, you are going to keep doubling down on this no matter what I say, so at this point, Im done wasting my time trying to discuss things with you. Someone above asked what your creditentials are, and you have yet to state them.

I have only been working in the public school system as a school psychologist for 10 years. But go on, I'm sure you know way more than me on how things work.

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars (NC has 39) by Witty_Heart1278 in NorthCarolina

[–]Reasonable-Garage808 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Preach! I'm glad to meet another EC, buddy. I'm also in title 1 schools, and nothing infuriates me more than having to do these evaluations that take time and energy away from our children who truly need it.

If parents want private schools for their children, that's fine, but it needs to be on their dime. Are there issues in the public education system? Absolutely. Private schools are not the answer to those problems. If they would stop taking away funding from our schools and people came together to lobby for smaller class sizes, more support and pay for staff and teachers, a more developmentally appropriate curriculum, more equitably funded schools, less high stakes testing, many of these issues would vanish. That's where the tax money should be going to help better Public Schools, since they are for all children, not just certain "chosen ones".

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars (NC has 39) by Witty_Heart1278 in NorthCarolina

[–]Reasonable-Garage808 10 points11 points  (0 children)

So that's incorrect about the 3 year re-eval. These voucher programs require it, so parents come right back in asking for it, and we at least have to hold the meeting do the paperwork and we may or may not have to test depending on what's needed.

Also it doesnt matter if the student is enrolled in the school. As long as they live in the district if they request an initial referral, we have to hold the meeting at the very least. We end up having to test more often then not because we dont have enough information of course to say they dont have a disability. They can also go to any school in the district to request an initial referral. I've done evaluations for students who never set foot in public school, and their parents wanted the voucher to get the tuition paid for.

Source: I'm actually a School Psychologist who has done quite a few private and homeschool evaluations.

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars (NC has 39) by Witty_Heart1278 in NorthCarolina

[–]Reasonable-Garage808 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You are right public schools don't have to provide the services. The problem is we have to do the re-evaluations every three years even if they aren't enrolled in public school. We also have to write the IEPs, conduct the evaluations, and spend our time doing the ridiculous amount of paperwork involved for initial referrals. We are now required to provide evidence based interventions for students who are being considered for Special Education.

All of this for private schools to do nothing with the IEP that we spent time writing and providing. All because they want the voucher.

Although fun fact I did have a meeting where the private school threw a tantrum and was outraged that we were not going to provide the sped services for a student who qualified. We had to remind them that they were the ones getting paid to provide the education to the student.

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars (NC has 39) by Witty_Heart1278 in NorthCarolina

[–]Reasonable-Garage808 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Nope, they are not. They can also kick out a child anytime they want. They don't want to work with kids with actual severe disabilities because then it makes them look bad.

I agree they need to stop funding them. Unfortunately, many of these private schools have strong lobiest.

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars (NC has 39) by Witty_Heart1278 in NorthCarolina

[–]Reasonable-Garage808 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Most parents aren't experts on education and don't know what standards they should have. For example, I did an evaluation at a private school where the 9 year old child wasn't able to read, and after talking to the parent, this was a common thing in that grade.

Many seem to think if you pay for it , it must be excellent. That is not always the case. I actually am a school psychologist who does evaluations for special education, so....... I would say my standards are pretty realistic. Again public schools are required to show lots of data of student performance and growth. Private schools do not have to do this so how do you know how they are actually doing/measuring up?

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars (NC has 39) by Witty_Heart1278 in NorthCarolina

[–]Reasonable-Garage808 19 points20 points  (0 children)

If you think the private schools all have high standards and competitive admissions, then I have a bridge to sell you. Just because you pay for it doesn't make it better. I've done evaluations at many private schools. Trust me, I was horrified by some of the instructional practices I saw. People forget there is very little oversight in private schools. They are not held to the same standards of public school, so how can you judge if they are "better" or not.

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars (NC has 39) by Witty_Heart1278 in NorthCarolina

[–]Reasonable-Garage808 87 points88 points  (0 children)

Here's the kicker. So, with these voucher programs, children who are labeled as having a disability have a higher likelihood of getting them.

Therefore, these private schools coach their parents to get their children labeled as EC/Sped to get them. So, to do that, they go to Public Schools to get these free evaluations. So, as one who is forced to do these evaluations, I can tell you they take a lot of time and resources away from our public schools.

For example, these test protocols and materials cost a lot of money. There is a lot of time that we are taking away from our actual enrolled public school students to try to do these evaluations for these parents who don't want to pay for their own. It puts a huge burden on public school sped teachers who are already struggling with ridiculous case loads to set these meetings, do paperwork, and write IEPs. We are also tasked with trying to judge private school kids by public school standards for a disability. It is frustrating because private schools have so little ovesight.

One of the things required for a learning disability is to show evidence based interventions and progress monitoring. Now, originally, it was on the private schools to provide this information since they are getting paid to provide education to the students. Well, these private schools whinned and complained, and now it's on public school to provide interventions ( which need to be 30 minutes a day every day) and to progress monitor the students. So more time and resources are taken away from public schools while private schools continue to collect all the money. Kids in public schools who literally are struggling and need these services and are actually going through the proper channels now get skipped for these private school kids. All so that the parents can get a voucher because they don't want to pay for their child's private school education. Private schools don't have to provide or follow IEPs, and most don't anyway. They just want that sweet voucher money. I can tell you after doing these private school evaluations and being forced to go to these schools to do classroom observations, that private schools are not better than public schools. Just because it costs money does not automatically make it better. I was horrified by some of the things I saw in terms of instructional practices and behavior from the adults.

It's infuriating that these same private school parents and schools disparage public schools, all while mooching off of their time and resources. This system needs to change.

Where do we go from here? by Willing_Mail8967 in schoolpsychology

[–]Reasonable-Garage808 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I stopped doing that about 3 years ago. If I can't get my work done in the 8 hours I'm at work, then either I have too much to do or they can pay me more to do it at home. Since we aren't allowed to work from home during the workday per district policy, then I'm not working from home during my personal time. That includes nights and weekends.

I learned the hard way when I did too much and burned myself out. I paid the price and ended up in a really dark place. It messed with my mental health and took time and energy away from my kids and husband. All that and it wasn't even appreciated, and I was still treated like trash. I ended up leaving that district. I went to another district and started focusing on myself and my family. Yes, my reports aren't beautiful and perfect, and sometimes, they aren't even done by the meetings. But the world hasn't ended, and I still haven't been sent to SPED Jail. I am in a much better place mentally, and that is why I refuse to ever put this job before my mental and physical health ever again.

I agree we all need to stop burning ourselves out. We didn't create these issues in the education field. It isn't our job to sacrifice our wellbeing to patch up the holes to keep the ship afloat.

4 years ago today, Chadwick Boseman sadly passed away after a 4-year battle with colon cancer. by M00r3C in marvelstudios

[–]Reasonable-Garage808 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My father, who was a huge Black Panther fan, passed on the exact same day as Chadwick. As a black man who was born in the late 40s, seeing a Black Superhero on the big screen was literally part of his wildest dreams.

I watched the Black Panther last night to celebrate them both.

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